Leave
it to someone like Tony Perkins -- president of the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated
anti-gay hate group the Family Research Council (FRC) -- to try to
use an anti-suicide campaign to gin up controversy and raise money.

In
an August FRC mailer discovered by Right Wing Watch, Perkins attacked the Obama administration
for participating in the “It Gets Better" Project, a campaign
launched last year in response to a series of high-profile LGBT youth suicides.
According to Perkins, the administration’s support for the campaign is
“appalling,” “disgusting,” and an attempt to “recruit” kids into a perverted
and “immoral” “lifestyle”:

This is the same Tony Perkins who has asserted that LGBT
youth kill themselves because they know they are “abnormal.”

It’s the same Tony
Perkins whom Fox relied on for commentary about a California
school’s anti-bullying program
(Perkins condemned the program as an attempt to “indoctrinat[e]” children “into
homosexuality.”

It’s
the same Tony Perkins who has a long
history of appearing on major cable news networks to promote his agenda of anti-LGBT smears
and misinformation.